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Today's episode features guest host Michael Upshall (guest editor, Charleston Briefings) who talks with Brewster Kahle , Founder & Director, Internet Archive. Brewster says that back in the 1980's he believed that everything would eventually become digital. He dreamed of building a Library of Alexandria where humanity's knowledge would be freely accessible. In this conversation, he talks with Michael about his work building early search technologies at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. In 1983, he helped create Thinking Machine Corporation, a pioneering supercomputer manufacturer. In 1996, he founded Alexa Internet, a web traffic analysis and ranking company that was eventually acquired by Amazon. He then launched The Internet Archive, which now contains over a trillion archived web pages and works with thousands of libraries around the world to preserve digital content. Brewster says he believes the internet should be a global, open library that supports learning and that compensates content creators fairly. He also talks about some lawsuits against publishers, controlled digital lending and the importance of open access for the future. The video of this interview can be found here: https://youtu.be/mJ-R9j7Oc4s Social Media : LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mupshall/ <span style= "mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; color: #1155cc; backgroun

Could the future of libraries as we’ve known them be completely different? Our guests this week say so. Megapublishers are suing the Internet Archive, perhaps best known for its Wayback Machine, to redefine e-books as legally different from paper books. A difference in how they are classified would mean sweeping changes for the way libraries operate. Brewster Kahle is a digital librarian at the Internet Archive. Kyle Courtney is a lawyer, librarian, director of copyright and information policy for Harvard Library. He's the co-founder of Library Futures, which aims to empower the digital future for America's libraries. They join to discuss what’s animating the lawsuit, information as a public good and the consequences should the publishers ultimately prevail. Sign up for MS NOW Premium on Apple Podcasts to listen to this show and other MS podcasts without ads. You'll also get exclusive bonus content from this and other shows. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data for advertising.

Have you ever thought it would be cool to see a website from 5 years ago, 10 years ago, even 20 years ago? That is exactly the vision that Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive and The Wayback Machine first started to develop in the late 1990's! In fact, Brewster was developing the Wayback Machine simultaneously to running Alexa Internet, one of the first internet browser plug-ins to track user web activity, which was ultimately sold to Amazon in 1999 for $250M in Amazon stock! Over the last 20 years, the Internet Archive has built the worlds largest archive of internet content - think the LIBRARY of the Internet. The magnitude is incredible: - 516 Billion Web Pages - 70 Petabytes of Storage - 6 Million Movies and Videos - 600,000 Software Programs - 1.5 Million Audio Files - 1.5M Daily Users Brewster was voted into the Internet Hall of Fame (yes, their is an Internet Hall of Fame), and is one of the most visionary, insightful and visionaries in the Internet ecosystem. Listen to this 30 minute session with Brewster and you will come away with a sense of excitement and possibilities that we have not yet realized in the internet economy! See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info .

This week, we feature a fascinating interview with Brewster Kahle , Founder and Digital Librarian, Internet Archive, recorded on November 6, 2019 in Charleston SC during the annual Charleston Library Conference. The interview was conducted by Nancy Herther , Sociology/Anthropology Librarian, University of Minnesota and Courtney McAllister , Electronic Resources Librarian, Lillian Goldman Law Library, Yale University. Nancy has recently retired, and Courtney has moved to a new job as a Library Services Engineer at EBSCO since the interview was recorded. We'd like to thank all three of the participants for the wonderful interview, and we hope you enjoy this week's episode. ----------------------------------------------------------- As a reminder, the Charleston Conference 2020 Call for Papers is now open. Submit your proposals before July 8. https://charlestonlibraryconference.com/call-for-papers/ Visit the Charleston Conference website to discover how we are responding to Covid-19. charlestonlibraryconference.com Video of the Penthouse Suite Interview with Brewster Kahle https://youtu.be/GcENZMi-HnM

In this, the opening keynote of the 2019 Charleston Conference, Brewster Kahle (Internet Archive) unveils another step in the grand goal of "universal access to all knowledge". Listen to discover how a new initiative by the Internet Archive is combating the epidemic of fake news by repairing and replacing Wikipedia citation links using Controlled Digital Lending. The Charleston Conference 2020 Call for Papers is now open. Submit your proposals before July 8. https://charlestonlibraryconference.com/call-for-papers/ Visit the Charleston Conference website to discover how we are responding to Covid-19. Charlestonlibraryconference.com In the coming weeks, we will look back on 2019's Charleston Conference and talk about the state of scholarly communications today. Visit charlestonlibraryconference.com/video/webinars to access a series of webcasts. The most recent installment, Artificial Intelligence in Scholarly research, is available in two parts, the second of which was broadcast May 20th, 2020.

Today, for episode 53, we're featuring the audio from the interview at the 2017 Charleston Conference with Brewster Kahle , founder and digital librarian of Internet Archive. Our hosts are Tom Gilson , Associate Editor of Against the Grain, and Albert Joy , Library Associate Professor Emeritus, University of Vermont. Each year, ATG is pleased to release a series of video interviews titled "Views from the Penthouse Suite." These interviews occur at the Charleston Library Conference, and it has become something that we look forward to every year. Select speakers and attendees are invited to the Penthouse Suite on the 12th floor of the Francis Marion Hotel in historic downtown Charleston, SC, to discuss wide-ranging topics and issues of importance to the publishing and library world. Videos of these interviews are available on the Charleston Conference YouTube channel and on the Conference website video page. Brewster Kahle Interview Video : https://youtu.be/lhblEZfqX_k List of all Penthouse Suite Interviews : https://www.charlestonlibraryconference.com/video/atg-penthouse-interviews/ Internet Archive: https://archive.org/